While the future of the Star Wars Saga is assured with Disney’s recent acquisition of Lucasfilm, the future of The Clone Wars and therefore the Lego Clone Wars sets, is not so clear.
Overnight, Dave Filoni who is the supervising director of the series confirmed that the recently concluded Season Five of The Clone Wars would be the last full season to be produced.
With the live action sequel, Episode VII going into full-scale production under the direction of JJ Abrams (squee!), the animation department will be instead focussing on smaller, as yet unnamed, “bonus episodes”
It will be interesting to see how Lego plays out this next year or so with no more new Star Wars content until Episode VII’s planned release in 2015.
Press Release (via Starwars.com)
As we enter into an exciting new era focused on the next Star Wars trilogy, Lucasfilm has decided to pursue a new direction in animated programming. We are exploring a whole new Star Wars series set in a time period previously untouched in Star Wars films or television programming. You can expect more details in the months to come.
As part of this shift, we have also made some key decisions affecting Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars Detours.
After five highly successful and critically acclaimed seasons of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, we feel the time has come to wind down the series. While the studio is no longer producing new episodes for Cartoon Network, we’re continuing production on new Clone Wars story arcs that promise to be some of the most thrilling adventures ever seen. Stay tuned for more information on where fans can soon find this bonus content. In the video below, Supervising Director Dave Filoni offers a peek of what is to come in Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
At Star Wars Celebration VI last year, George Lucas gave fans a glimpse at the animated comedy series Star Wars Detours from Seth Green, Matthew Senreich, and Todd Grimes. Detours was conceived and produced before we decided to move forward with the new Star Wars trilogy, and in the wake of that decision, Lucasfilm has reconsidered whether launching an animated comedy prior to the launch of Episode VII makes sense. As a result, we’ve decided to postpone the release of Detours until a later date.
We are incredibly proud of the teams at Lucasfilm Animation for creating some of the most amazing animation ever produced for TV. Keep checking StarWars.com for new developments on these and future projects.